Equalizer for spring-carriages



(ModeL) .0.-P. LOWE.

'EQ'UALIZER FOR SPRING GARRIAGBS.

No. 278,984. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR F. LO\VE, OF HAMPTON, IOXVA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,984, dated June 5,1883.

Application filed l\Iarch 12. 1893. (Modem To all 2071,0172 it mayconcern.-

Be it known that I, Oscar: -F. LOWE, of Hampton, in the county ofFranklin and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Equalizerfor Spring-Carriages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to contrive for maintaining the properlevel of the carriagebody when unevenly loaded, and to prevent the bodyfrom being unduly thrust upward by the shocks and jolts caused by unevenroads.

The contrivance consist s of a double-cranked rod pivoted in clips atthe front side of the hind axle, with its two arms reaching forward asuitable distance each side of the body, and connected to it by rods, sothat an undue weight on one side will take effect alike on the otherside through the cranked rod, and said rod carries a rod connecting theextremities of the arms under the reach, so that the upward thrust ofthe body will be arrested by contact of the said connectingrod with thereach, and the reach has a cushion to lessen the shocksof the rod, allas hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a carriagebody with my improvedequalizing attachment, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevationof the same.

I arrange a rod or shaft, 0, along the front side of the axle I),inbearings of clips 0, attached to'the axle, and having a crank-arm, (l,at each 5 end, extending forward under the body a suitable distance, andbeing connected at their forward ends by rods 6 with the side bars, f,or it may be the body or other part attached to the body, so that weighton one side of the body 0 will have equal effect on the other side ofthe body through the medium of said cranked shaft. The arms (I alsocarry the rod 71, which connects them together at the free ends andpasses under the reach i, so as to hold the body 45 down when thrustupward powerfully by uneven roads. I arrange a cushion, j, under thereach, to cushion the shocks of the rod on the reach and diminish theireffect.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim 50 as new and desiretosecure by Letters Patent The combination of rod a,arn1s (1, rod 71, cushionj and connecting-rods c with the axle I) and the body of a carriageor its support, said rod a being pivoted on the axle, under the reach,and said arms (1 being connected to the body, substantially asdescribed.

OSCAR E, LOWE.

\Vitnesses:

H. B. CORNISH, H. A. HARRIMAN.

the rod h arranged 55'

